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Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows Lectures in American Art

McEvoy Auditorium, American Art Museum 8th and F Streets, NW, Washington

The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents three afternoons of lectures delivered by its research fellows. This event is open to the public, and no reservations are required. The talks will be available through a simultaneous webcast. Thursday, May 4 2:00 p.m. to 3:40 p.m. Moderator: Eleanor Harvey, Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum Michele Amedei, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, Pegasus Program of the Universities of Florence, Siena, and Pisa “Romanticism in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, 1830-1848: Mutual Exchange Between American and Florentine Artists” Annika Johnson, Predoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh “George Catlin, Pipestone, and Artistic Prospecting […]

Frank Bösch — “The Rise of the Digital Society: Computers in Socialist and Democratic Cold War Germany”

German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington

Frank Bösch of the Center for Contemporary History (ZZF) will present a talk for the German Historical Institute’s spring 2017 lecture series, “The Making of the Digital World.” He is professor of European History of the Twentieth Century at the University of Potsdam. Please RSVP through Eventbrite. Refreshments will be served from 6 to 6:30 p.m.